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There can be little doubt, then, that Bede used a manuscript which had 

 rubrics differing not very greatly from those of «. We designate this lost 

 source by the letter |3. 



It has been already hinted that Bede probably derived his rubrics from 

 sources other than /3, though we may be confident that it was his principal 

 authority. Can we detect any clause of the rubrics of B which did not come 

 from ^ ? 



Of the headings there are very few which we can safely refer to this class. 

 The following may, perhaps, be among them : — 

 Ps. ii. a : iticrepatio potestatum. 



B : civristus cle passione et potcstate sua dicit. S : uox christi de jmssione. 

 Ps. xxxiv. a : iiox christi in passione de iudeis dicit. 



B : totiis psalmus ex piersoiui christi est et per (so 2) christuvi ad 

 omnes psalmos referri potest. S : totus psalm/u,s est ex persona 

 christi. 

 Ps. Ixiii. a : twx pcmli de passione christi. 



BS : uox martyrum christi. 

 Ps. xciv. a : uox christi ad apostolos. 



B : icox ecclesiae poeiiitentiam suadeiitis. S : uo.v aecelesiae. 

 Ps. cxxxviii. a : uox ecclesiae ad populum conlaudans deum (dominum R). 



BS : uox petri apostoli paenitentis. 

 In the liturgical notes we stand on firmer ground. B has oO or .31 

 references to the lectionary, which may be divided, according to their form, 

 into three classes.' Mne begin with the word lege- ; four, or perhaps five, 

 with a preposition — in or ad^ ; seventeen with the words Icgendus ad.* This 

 difference of form is naturally explained by a difference of source. A 

 compiler who pieces together scraps from earlier writers — and this was in 

 the main the procedure of Bede in his argumcnta — will not in most cases 

 reduce them to a common formula. And that the explanation here suggested 



' I do not include here the words super lazarn et diuite puryurato (Ps. xlviii), common 

 to a and B, best explained as a lectionary note. See below, p. 280 f. 



^ Pss. ii, vi, viii, x, si, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxix, xli. 2 omits three of these notes (Pss. 

 vi, X, xi). 



^ Pss. xii, xvii, xviii, xxii. 2 omits the lectionary note to Ps. xxii ; for Ps. xviii it 

 gives ut in mathio legit. The words in matthaeo in the rubric of Ps. xiii, which occur in 

 the middle of the heading, are probably not a reference to the lectionary. In any case, 

 they do not seem to be Bedan. See above, p. 273, and below, p. 277. For Ps. 1, see 

 note ■*. 



■* The full form is legendus ad lectionem (or, in the case of the Gospels, eiiangelium), 

 followed by a genitive. See Pss. xxvi-xxviii, xl, xliii-xlvii, xlix, lii, Ixviii, xc, cv, cvi, 

 cxxix. In this class we may also include Ps. 1 on the authority of 2, which prefixes 

 legendus to the lectionary note. 



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